December 2002
Intermediate to advanced
588 pages
25h 57m
English
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AccessFileName
AccessFileName gives authority to the files
specified. If a directory is given, authority is given to all files
in it and its subdirectories.
AccessFileName filename, filename|direcory and subdirectories ...
Server config, virtual hostInclude the following line in httpd.conf:
AccessFileName .myaccess1, myaccess2 ...
Restart Apache (since the AccessFileName has to be
read at startup). You might expect that you could limit
AccessFileName to .myaccess
in some particular directory, but not elsewhere. You
can’t — it is global (well, more global than
per-directory). Try editing ... /conf/httpd.conf
to read:
<Directory /usr/www/APACHE3/site.htaccess/htdocs/salesmen> AccessFileName .myaccess </Directory>
Apache complains:
Syntax error on line 2 of /usr/www/APACHE3/conf/srm.conf: AccessFileName not allowed here
As we have said, this file is found and parsed on each access, and this takes time. When a client requests access to a file /usr/www/APACHE3/site.htaccess/htdocs/salesmen/index.html, Apache searches for the following:
/.myaccess
/usr/.myaccess
/usr/www/APACHE3/.myaccess
/usr/www/APACHE3/site.htaccess/.myaccess
/usr/www/APACHE3/site.htaccess/htdocs/.myaccess
/usr/www/APACHE3/site.htaccess/htdocs/salesmen/.myaccess
This multiple search also slows business down. You can turn multiple searching off, making a noticeable difference to Apache’s speed, with the following directive:
<Directory /> AllowOverride none </Directory>
It is important to understand that / means the ...
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